Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1887-11-02
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

SOlhe Otn6T man loses an enemy.
WHILE the farmers water their stock,
Jay Gould now stalks the water.
OYSTERS were never more plentiful
and rarely so good as at this time.
OUR first winter love is a Pumping
pumpkin buckwheat griddle greaser.
Go to the old Postofice to get your
taffies. 4
WHAT manner of sense is there in
the persistent custom of hand shaking.
FARMERS and others who want tres
pass notices can obtain them at this
office.
REV. GEO. PORTER, of Newark, will
minister at the Presbyterian church
next Sunday.
The National Bank of Smyrna put in
on Monday new time-lOck and burg
lar proof safe.
JOHN G. BAILEY has sold the farm at
ClOak's mill to VIM. r. Smith. 131
acres, for 81, 100.
IT may not be generally known that
during butter famine a fine substi-
tute is Lasses."
WHENEVER you see a boy Siding
down to school you may be sure he has
slept on the siding side.
THE three days of high east wind
ending with yesterday have produced
high tides and been dangerous to ship
ping.
THE letter of Miss DR.. Woodruff
which failed to get in type this week
as was intended, will appear in our
next issue.
THURSDAY the oath day of Novem-
Der has again been designated as
Thanksgiving Day, by Presidential
proclamation.
JESSE FENNIMORE, a we'll known
resident of Blackbird Hundred died
last week and was buried at Friend
ship church on Sunday.
Mrs. MARY WILSON, wife of Robert
Wilson, of St. Jones Neck, and mother
OF Mrs. J. Frank Denney, was buried
in GlenwOOd cemetery on Sunday
afternoon.
Rev. w. S. ROBINsON's Bible Glass.
which is held in the lecture room ofthe
M. r. church on Friday evenings, will
meet at seven o'clock P. NJ, until fur
Their notice.
IT cannot be too often impressed upon
newly married young people, that the
surest way to success is to be always
ready to seize the "Next best thing
ma says do"
JOHN W. FORD finished his corn
crop on Friday, nearly nine hundred
bushels, which he and another man
had husked in less than a month, in.
Guiding the rainy days.
PERSONS interested in Western thrift
and responsiveness will find in Ram.
bleT's" description of Duluth on our
first page a presentation of the West
ern way of doing business.
BETHEL A. NJ. E. church collected
S129.25 at their grand rally' on Sun.
day, which with what has been appro
priated before will make $500 paid on
their church Indebtedness the past si1
months.
SAMUEL A. BENSON, who opened hi!
candy kitchen in this town a week ACC
has found it an immensely popular in
stitutiOn. Before the close of bushes.
hours on Saturday, all his candy haf
been sold.
The first Sunday School Convention
OF the third Sunday School district O
the Philadelphia Conference will b,
held in the Bethel A. NJ. E.
Church Wednesday and Thursday o
next week.
IF ALL the correspondents Of tn,
EUeTy EUening are as veraciOus and re-
liable as the one that writes from thii
town. our contemporary ought to fee
proud in laying before its readers sucl
accurate information.
HERMAN Roe, of our local ministry
supplied the place of the Rev. Mr.
Morgan, the pastor, on Sunday a
Townsend, and J. V. Smith preached
TOR the new NJ. E. congregation a
Clayton on the same day.
WANTED.-Walnut kernels at tn,
Candy Kitchen. T
FROM the number of persons VIII,
went direct from the Opera House t,
SteVensOn's last night in quest of hi
ice cream and oysters, it might hav
been supposed there was an adjourn
ment of the audience from the forme
to the latter place.
JAMES II. HALL, near Duck Greek
has gone one better on large potatoe
carrying a basket of Burbank potatoe
to the store of Geo. w. Gordon las
week, nineteen filling a peach basket
He raised So baskets from less than
quarter of an acre.
A LITERARY lecture will be given a
the smyrna Opera House, Nov. 9th
by the Rev. w. S. Robinson, pastor @
the M. r. church, under the auspices q
the W. @. 7. U. It will doubtless be
decided success, as the speaker is a.
orator and the subject an interesting
one.
AT the election yesterday In thi
Hundred 324 votes were cast, 3l7 70
a convention, 3 against and four vote
were thrown out. But few vote
from the rural portion Of the Hundre
were cast. In the town majority {
both Democrats and Republicans vote
for convention.
FRESH walnut bar, almond bal
butter-nut bar and peanut bar at Cand
Kitchen. r.
DAVID ROBINSON, for G. B. Tullidg
did not let the frost cheat him. Not
) ing the approach Of the latter, h
gathered the tomatoes grown bu
not ripe, housed them, and now h
has between thirty and forty basket
, of ripe tomatoes to deliver TO HOffeok
er's cannery in few days.
. JOSEPH STEPHENsON's friends TO tn,
number Of twenty-five or thirty abou
. Green Spring, on Thursday night tool
I possession of his premises to give hin
a surprise party, They carried thei
l refreshments with them, and had sue
a good time that they kept Mr.. Stept
enson, who usually retires early, u
until about one o'clock.
!. II. f. Fox, q salesman with A,
t Yates & Co., Of Philadelphia, cam
down on Saturday to spend Sunda
with his friend. Robert S. Wilds unit
? disabled, o salesman ia the same place
+ and who is now 10 o very precariou
9 state Of health On Monday be vjsite
q number Of our places Of bushes
q ! ioouyfnor the advarfiainor card Of fhn FIR